PDE Academic Standards

PDE Anchors

PDE Eligible Content

3.4.10.B Analyze energy sources and transfers of heat.
S11.B.3.3 Explain how human-made systems impact the management and distribution of natural resources.
S11.B.3.3.1 Describe different human-made systems and how they use renewable and nonrenewable natural resources (i.e., energy, transportation, distribution, management, and processing).
3.8.10.A Analyze the relationship between societal demands and scientific and technological enterprises.
S11.C.2.1 Analyze energy sources and transfer of energy, or conversion of energy.
S11.C.2.1.4 Use Ohm’s Law to explain relative resistances, currents, and voltage.
3.8.10.C Evaluate possibilities consequences and impacts of scientific and technological solutions.
S11.C.2.2 Demonstrate that different ways of obtaining, transforming, and distributing energy have different environmental consequences.
S11.C.2.2.2 Explain the practical use of alternative sources of energy (i.e., wind, solar, and biomass) to address environmental problems (e.g., air quality, erosion, resource depletion).
4.2.10.A Explain that renewable and nonrenewable resources supply energy and materials.


4.2.10.C Analyze how man-made systems have impacted the management and distribution of natural resources.


4.4.10.C Explain the functions of the components of the food and fiber system.


4.8.10.A Analyze how society’s needs relate to the sustainability of natural resources.


4.8.10.B. Analyze the relationship between the use of natural resources and sustaining our society.


4.8.10.C Analyze how human activities may cause changes in an ecosystem.


4.8.10.D Explain how the concept of supply and demand affects the environment.